According to Comrade Yuri Manoukian, First Secretary of the Yerevan City Committee 
of the Communist Party,  "A terrorist state has no right to have an embassy in Armenia."  


Communist Comrade Yuri was talking about our United States of America.  Of course, he 
was referring to our country’s participation in NATO’s response to Yugoslavia’s 
President Milosevic’s ethnic cleansing of Kosovo’s Albanians.  And since he is now 
living in a democracy, he, no doubt, has every right to express his opinions.   That is, of 
course, if he can give justifiable reasons for expressing them.   Unfortunately, however, 
some of the remarks Comrade Yuri has been making in Yerevan recently, do not seem to 
be based on justifiable cause but on his deep-seated hatred toward a successful capitalist 
society such as ours--a capitalist society that was also instrumental in finally bringing 
down his beloved USSR a few short years ago.


In a Noyan Tapan news brief, Comrade Yuri had organized a Communist backed protest 
in front of our U.S. Embassy in Yerevan on April 2, 1999.  Under normal circumstances, 
I might not have responded toward this man’s distorted communist attitude were it not for 
the fact that he displayed the same type of slanted attitude that had become the hallmark 
of the degenerate Stalin era.


I can almost picture this guy screaming and spewing his poisoned remarks to those in 
attendance, "Let the U.S., first of all, think about how to call to order its own perverted 
citizens and its President and take its hands off nations with deep-rooted traditions, 
national conscience, and dignity."  He was probably suggesting that we build Soviet style 
Siberian Gulags in Alaska.  And as for his "...deep-rooted traditions, national conscience, 
and dignity," he was probably alking about how Comrade Slobodan Milosevic, "The 
Butcher of the Balkans," was directing his genocide  against Yugoslavia’s Albanians.  
And if he was, was he also placing Stalin’s murderous  bloody purges and the Ottoman’s 
massacre of our Armenian people in 1915, in the same category?


Not satisfied with his distortions and misrepresentations, Comrade Yuri goes on to 
classify American soldiers are being cowards and demands that our U.S. Ambassador 
leave Armenia.  And if all that isn’t enough, he also tells a Noyan Tapan reporter in a 
later interview that the Communist Party was in the process of enlisting volunteers, 
including Armenians, to go to Yugoslavia and fight alongside the Serbs.


Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto explains why aspiring Communists are obligated to 
use any and all means at their disposal to disturb, disrupt, and destroy their capitalistic 
bourgeois government, after which they would purge, organize, and rebuild a new world 
order which would ultimately lead their followers back to a Garden of Eden type of 

existence with their purged individual consciences being the only governing force.  
Unfortunately, even Comrade Lenin (Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov), the father of the Union of 
Soviet Socialist Republics, finally saw the light.  Just before he died on January 21, 1924, 
his dying remarks indicated that communism wouldn’t work.  But Comrade Stalin (Josef 
Vissarionovich Djugashvili) had other ideas.  


After Comrade Lenin died, Comrade Aleksei Rykov took over only to be executed for 
treason in 1938.  Comrade Molotov took over after Rykov, but the actual ruler from 1938 
till he died on March 5, 1953, was Comrade Joseph Stalin, "The Butcher of Mother 
Russia."  Before Comrade Yuri starts labeling our United States as a terrorist state, he 
might point out how many millions of his own people that Comrade Stalin butchered in 
the name of,  ". . . deep-rooted traditions, national conscience, and dignity."  


Let him explain why a little communist state like Armenia had to sacrifice 250,000 of 
their youth during WWII.  From what I heard, most of them didn’t even have weapons to 
fight with, much less warm clothing.  I suppose Comrade Stalin felt that Armenians were 
more qualified to draw Nazi artillery fire than the rest.  And on that score, he might also 
try to explain why, if communism was so bountiful, the people of  White Russia looked 
on Nazi Germany as liberators when they invaded the USSR on June 22, 1941.  And, of 
course, how they started resisting after they found out that Hitler’s Nazis were even more 
merciless.


I could go on and on talking about the tragic disservice that Comrade Yuri Manoukian’s 
Communists did to their Soviet subjects.  I speak with some authority because I saw a 
major part of the European War during WWII as a U.S. Infantryman.  I was in 
Czechoslovakia when we made contact with the Soviets in May 1945.  And even after the 
war ended on May 8, 1945, we kept going for another two weeks because there were 
pockets of diehard German SS in Czechoslovakia who wanted to fight to their death.  
However, for the sake of brevity, I would like to end this commentary, but before I do, I 
would like to ask Comrade Yuri a question: Are you going to be one of the volunteers 
who are going to fight alongside the Serbs?


Joseph Vosbikian